The Republic of Korea has agreed to give Bangladesh $100 million in concessional loan from the Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) to help the south Asian economy recover from the pandemic.

The finance ministry has ordered Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) to go for stricter monitoring to prevent manipulations in the market if there is any.

The Dhaka stocks started gaining from today morning after experiencing three consecutive days of drop.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal believes the recent rise in exports will help Bangladesh achieve 7.2 per cent growth in gross domestic product in the current fiscal year.

The Building Technology & Ideas (bti) Ltd has organised the end-of-the-year “bti Mega Sales Event 2021” at Celebration Point at Gulshan-2 in Dhaka recently.

Bangladesh's stock market continued its falling trend today due to a selling spree among the general investors.

Some 125 digital campaigns were yesterday honoured as winners of the fifth Digital Marketing Award for digital works in Bangladesh.

The non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) can now show their unrealised interest of loans as income if borrowers can pay 25 per cent of their annual instalments by this year.

The commerce ministry today increased the wastage ratio for garment makers by 11 percentage points to 27 per cent, as the production of high-value items creates a lot of wastage.

The tax difference between listed and non-listed companies should be rationalised in order to encourage good companies and pursue well-performing large corporates for listing in the capital market, said Rizwan Rahman, president of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI).

Turnover at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) dropped to under the Tk 800-crore-mark again today as the index continued falling the whole day.

Malek Spinning has decided to close down its textile unit of its subsidiary named Salek Textile due to accumulated loss.

The International Monetary Fund has slightly raised its projection for the economic growth of Bangladesh to 6.6 per cent for this fiscal year, up from 6.5 per cent it forecast in October.

The Summit Power has closed its gas-fired Madhabdi Power Plant Unit-2 as the plant’s power purchase agreement with the government has expired.

The Bangladesh stock market index started the week with a massive fall today as investors went for a selling spree.

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad today said his target is to set the migration cost for sending workers to Malaysia at a level that will be viable for poor aspirant workers.

Bangladesh Bank has asked electronic payment gateways to start paying back money to the customers who did not get delivery of products from the rogue e-commerce platforms despite making advance payments.

The Daily Star journalist Ahsan Habib won the Best Reporting Award-2021 in the print media category given by the Capital Market Journalists’ Forum (CMJF) today.

The stock market regulator has given go-ahead to EDGE Asset Management to launch an open ended mutual fund named EDGE High Quality Income Fund.

The local jewellery makers’ body has cut gold prices by Tk 100 per gram as the global price of the precious metal declined thanks to the emergence of Omicron, new coronavirus variant.